Wed 31 March 2021: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan on Tuesday replied to a letter written by his counterpart Narendra Modi saying Pakistan desires peaceful relations with India. Modi had written to Khan on the occasion of Pakistan’s Republic Day on March 23, also calling for peaceful relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals. Dated March […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: The United States should fully withdraw from Afghanistan but it must do so responsibly, former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said on Monday. Last week, President Joe Biden said due to “tactical reasons” the US was unlikely to meet the May 1 deadline to exit Afghanistan stipulated in the agreement the Trump […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: China has approved a sweeping and controversial overhaul to Hong Kong’s political system that will cut the number of directly elected seats in the territory’s mini-parliament and create a vetting committee to approve candidates for office. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC), the top decision-making body of the […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: Indonesian police arrested 13 suspects in a sprawling probe into the suicide attack on the Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral in Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province, Antara news agency reported on Monday, citing police. Arrests took place in the provinces of Jakarta, South Sulawesi, West Java and West Nusa […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: The Nizamuddin Markaz building of Tablighi Jamaat hosted a small gathering of 50 people on the eve of Shab-e-Barat on Sunday. This was the first time since March 28 last year that a gathering has been allowed inside the premises. A policeman guarded the gate of the building and checked the […]
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Tue 30 March 2021: The Bangladeshi Bhasan Char island camp that houses over 13,000 Rohingya refugees is in need of urgent financial aid to maintain humanitarian services in the upcoming cyclone season, an independent investigation by the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society and the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) revealed on […]
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Mon 29 March 2021: The United States is suspending all trade engagement with Myanmar after the recent military coup in that country and subsequent violence against civilians there, the office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) said in a statement on Monday. The office’s statement indicated that the suspension will stay in place “until the return of a democratically elected government.” […]
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Mon 29 March 2021: At least two protesters were killed and scores injured in fresh violence as Bangladesh’s hardline Islamist group Hefazat-e-Islam observed a nationwide strike on Sunday protesting against the visit of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the country. A total of 12 people have been killed in three days of unrest. The […]
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Mon 29 March 2021: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has condemned the Myanmar security forces’ response to the Saturday anti-government protests that reportedly left dozens of people dead. I am following the worrying events in Myanmar. The escalation of violence with more than 100 civilian killings perpetrated by the military against its own people […]
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Sun 28 March 2021: India recorded 312 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours, as of Sunday, which is the highest registered number since December 25, local media reported. According to The Hindustan Times, around 83 percent of all death cases in the past 24 hours were reported in six states that have also showed a trend […]
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